The Bible will never be a living Book to us until we are convinced that God is articulate in His universe. To jump from a dead, impersonal world to a dogmatic Bible is too much for most people. They may admit that they should accept the Bible as the Word of God, and they may […]
Small Group Success
Success in leading a small group isn’t measured by how many are in the group, how fast it grows numerically, or how frequently it meets, but by whether the members of the group are increasingly dying to self and living to righteousness. A great small group is not one where people are wowed by the […]
Into the Fray
In his book Don’t Waste Your Life and his sermon series on the book of Romans, John Piper calls for having a wartime mentality when it comes to the’ Christian life. We are fighting for the glory of God and the souls of our neighbors, who are casualties in the fray. To paraphrase Don’t Waste […]
The Man of God
The pious man’s deepest concern therefore is God Himself and the things of God—God’s Word, God’s authority, God’s gospel, God’s truth. He yearns to know more of God and to commune more with Him (Joel Beeke, Puritan Reformed Spirituality, p. 3).
Serve One Another
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory […]
False Zeal
I am persuaded that there is no man imbued with true piety who will not consider as insipid that long and labored exhortation to zeal for heavenly life, a zeal which keeps a man entirely devoted to himself and does not, even by one expression, arouse him to sanctify the name of God (Joel Beeke, […]
Reasons to Gather
There are lots of small groups meeting these days. From Alcoholics Anonymous to your local chapter of Hell’s Angels, folks gather for a variety of reasons. Scripture provides three good reasons to gather in small groups: to promote sanctification, to extend care, and to develop true fellowship. (Mark Mullery in C.J. Mahanney ed., Why Small […]
When God Speaks
When God spoke out of heaven to our Lord, self-centered men who heard it explained it by natural causes: they said, ‘It thundered.’ This habit of explaining the Voice by appeals to natural law is at the very root of modern science. In the living breathing cosmos there is a mysterious Something, too wonderful, too […]
Our Delight
When the law of God is written in our hearts, our duty will be our delight. —Matthew Henry